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This is awesome. Then I remembered that it’s made of snow. Now I’m crying.
This is good, but it should have been called “Snow-toro.”
It eats its own kind!
or it is pregnant with triplets and we are getting a “special” view
I’m sorry, but its simply not possible for anything to achieve higher levels of awesome than this.
Seriously? You couldn’t call it Snow-toro?! Title fail, methinks.
I just got Soot ball slippers from the movie in the mail! Then, I found this!
um, wats a totoro? a chinese canabalistic bunny?
Totoro is a nature spirit from the Hayao Miyazaki film My Neighbor Totoro. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro
and, perhaps not coincidentally, the day this photo was posted was Hayao Miyazaki’s birthday
HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW WHO TOTORO IS?! Go watch My Neighbor Totoro… NOW GODDAMNIT!
no u. and leave me alone. you dont here ME pressuring you to watch movies.
oh, wait…
Second.
I agree with smileyboi.
Snow-Domo-Cat.
It reminds me of Pokemon.
BLASPHEMY!
Jennifer you need to watch My Neighbour Totoro. Pokemon sucks holes.
Oh wow! We were going to make a TotoSnow yesterday, but ran out of snow making a Domo-snow, and not I’ve lost the cable to upload the photos!
totosnow? no… just no. Do you KNOW what that means in spanglish?
I’ll give you a hint; it comes out of a man’s happy place when he is really happy…
I hate cats, they should all be eaten
Surely it should have been Sn-O-Totoro?
(for those of us who actually know what we’re talking about?)
I dunno… it’s stomach has a hole… with his friends inside… I don’t think that’s healthy =(
Now that, I’ve really got to try. Epic win indeed.
I wonder if there is a chocolate center?
This is so adorable my head exploded.
There are people out there who haven’t watch My neighbour Totoro? They have my sympathy. Brilliant movie.
Hey, we all gotta start somewhere. I didn’t really know of it until late in highschool and didn’t get to see it until I was at college, and that was a hooky download that someone dragged out of cyberspace for me on their 56k, after they showed me Mononoke and I was hungry for more… Though it was popular in mainland europe and had something of a cult following in the USA, it and Ghibli’s other works never really troubled the UK until very recently (none really released on DVD until ~2005, except for fairly rough treatments of Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away). HMV gave them something of a push on release but it was a bit lacklustre and wasn’t backed up by anyone else, even the releasing company. No billboards, TV ads or anything. It’s pretty much all word of mouth and internet, and I suspect a similar thing in the americas – just one that’s gone on much longer, so that there’s now a generation of young parents who themselves saw it as kids.
Can’t be too down on someone who’s never heard of or seen it, because it’s far too understandable – we can only wave the carrot and see if they bite
Three cheers for Film4 who have shown Kiki’s Delivery Service, Spirited Away and Laputa a few times over the last 5 years… now if only we can convince them to spread their net a bit broader… Totoro and the other releases, and then hopefully onto other studios (…and countries)
They have also shown My Neighbor Totoro and Porco Rosso… And I can record them… Because Virgin Media kicks arse like that… Although I’ve only recorded Laputa so far… But I have Spirited Away and Howls moving castle on DVD.. You can’t beat any Studio Ghibli films…
Oh, and Film4 also show The Cat Returns.
Too fabulous!!
So adorable! <3
To tell the truth, I don’t really understand all of this. I try not to be too dense, but it’s just escaping me at the moment.
It’s a snow model of the character Totoro of the Studio Ghibli film “My Neighbor Totoro” A film I highly reccomend.
Awesome! =o
Malcom- meh,,, me neither!
Close but no cigar. Why whould totoro’s friends be in his belly? Whoever built it, missed the arms (those are kind-of critical). And the smile doesn’t look quite right… His usual smile is kind-of an over-joyed creepyness smile.
+1 for creativity
Epic Win for the idea
-10 for missing some crucial details.
I fully agree with Steve K: this is a wonderful piece of art that anyone should be proud of, and any imperfections serve only to make it more approachable. Thanks for taking the time to create this, muchless share it!
Maybe the Catbus just wasn’t working out…
Come to think of it, that’d be an awesome encore… next blizzard, whoever did this, purr-ty pleez?
OMG its so cuteeeeeeeeee
this is gay dont find it funny at all
Ma è enorme….. FANTASTICO!!! Il mio amico Totoro….
i agree with you, meh. i have seen this picture THREE times and i still dont get it. at first, i thought it was a canabalistic bunny eating its kids for nourishment. im AMERICAN!!! i never heard of my neighbor totoro!!!! who has? srsly, WHO?!
Yeah, forgot that most Americans only see America and know (barely) about America. Worser still, they don’t want to know more than that.
Well apparently, most of the WORLD plus SOME Americans have seen or at least heard about Totoro….. you just fall in rest-of-America world percentile E-Man… too bad for you.
“Worser” isn’t a word. If you’re going to insult someone, at least use proper English.
Jesus F*ing bibblybobs have you nobs never heard of google or wikipedia or imdb?
Check that out before commenting and you’ll actually know what’s going on here.
Sure it doesn’t get the huge amount of marketing splurge that the big disney numbers need, but it’s not that kind of film and still moderately well known and liked. Oh wow, other people knowing about stuff you don’t, and about stuff that isn’t incessantly commercially promoted in your home country, how can it possibly exist, it must be witchcraft.
Try educating yourself instead of going off on how something cannot possibly be popular because you don’t personally know of it next time.
I have. It’s very popular, even in America (The Land of Dumbasses). Yes, in America, we are all blind fools.
This is beyond awesome. I saw this picture and knew what it was. If you don’t understand it, then watch the movie My Neighbor Totoro. It’s a really cute anime, and I loved it as a kid, and have seen other kids enjoy it just the same. Now all we need is some dirty snow to make the soot sprites =)
That’s brilliant! The next time it snows, I’m making soot sprites.
ClacClak, stop being a hater. so im american. so what? so what if i dont watch movies or shows with wind spirits. there is NO wind spirit. wind is just moving air. plus, if u know so much about americans, what is the movie the blind side about?
I’ll admit I’m not an expert on the states but I know enough that you’re not all ignorant bags of crap. I’ve met enough of your countryment, and your current president is proof enough of this too. His performance yesterday responding to both Haiti and the banks making merry with the bail-out money actually made me smile, and the fact he got enough of the vote to be inaugurated shows that there’s a lot of decent folks still in your nation. And a lot of the republican voters have to be good, intelligent, educated people too, just with different political standpoints that currently don’t have very honourable top spokespeople.
However there’s an awful lot like yourselves. Poorly educated, actively ignorant, either unaware or uncaring of a world outside your borders, strangely proud of the previous two characteristics, and at the same time utterly convinced that everything your country does is awesome and the best, and everything else is not worth knowing or automatically bad. You give the rest of them such a bad name that a lot of the rest of the world prefers to assume that ALL residents of the USA are like that. Please, stop it, you’re ruining a once proud nation’s reputation.
Sure, other countries around the world have sectors of society just as bad – we have the burgeoning Chav issue, for example – but none of them seem as large, vocal, or as I said before, inexplicably proud of how self centred and unread they are.
Whilst you’re at it, please drop the word “world” out of the titles of all your sports championships that don’t actually feature other countries, or those not on the same continent.
You say you’re not an expert on us, but, uh, you’ve pretty well got it figured out. Especially for some of the areas down south or else Northern Idaho (I live right next door and know what I’m talking about). I’m glad you’re willing to distinguish the varying levels of intelligence vs. ignorance… makes me feel a little better. And yeah, if anyone doesn’t get it, watch the movie before making a comment; your point of view will carry more weight if informed.
plus, ClacClak, who is the what is the mission that the pilots in the movie Pearl Harbor fly and die in? or at least one of them… what mission?
Dude, nobody cares about the movie pearl harbor. If you haven’t seen totoro, then you don’t get the reference. That’s why you don’t find it funny. No big deal, but it’s a classic, and an imdb top 250 if you’re interested. Also being american has nothing to do with anything, but way to be a jerk about it.
i jus dont see wats so funny about a snow scuplture. no offense if u like totoro. i just dont think it is so funny.
Who ever said it was meant to be funny?
Wow, erm.. who’s being the hater here? I can’t figure out if you’re either a poor troll or just THAT stupid.
ClacClak is the hter. he thinks americans dont know anything about ANYTHING.
PS talking from Britishland here
Blindside seems to be a typically glurgy rags to riches, black/white buddy movie about a rich family who help a homeless kid become an NFL star.
The Pearl Harbour mission depends which side you’re on.
The Japanese mission doesn’t appear to have an official name, at least not one I can easily research from my desk; the only associated code is the famous “Tora Tora Tora!” radio signal that basically meant “we are GO for the attack”.
The American retaliatory bombing of Tokyo appears to have been called the Doolittle Raid, but my sources on that are patchy. However, they’re probably better than those used for the film itself, which although I have a free copy of it from a newspaper, I have not watched and might not ever do so apart from the comedy value – it has been very widely panned as a dreadful movie, including by the surviving real life Doolittle pilot Kenneth Taylor (whom Rafe McCawley is supposedly based on), full of innaccuracies and other examples of very poor direction that are really quite disrespectful to the subject matter and those who died in the real conflict.
I did however at least know of it and the vague plot surrounding it beforehand, and I now know far too much about it. Amazing what you can find using the internet and a few spare minutes. Would it have been too hard to at least type one word into google, see the summaries of the first couple of links, and gone “oh, it’s a largely acclaimed kids’ movie”?
BTW if you’re so hot on Pearl Harbour and the Doolittle bombing you may enjoy – for all the wrong reasons – Grave of the Fireflies that was released as a double feature with Totoro.
um, no offense, but no one was talking to u.
fabulous! I love miyazaki movies…have seen them all, ‘cept Ponyo (sp?)..and I’m sure it’s only a matter of time….
Totoro is one of my favorites.
and BTW-i’m american. And old. ;p
Love Anime!
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A word has not yet been invented to describe how awesome this is.
…and so Totoro turned to his friends and said “The snow is too deep, it will be ages before rescue comes. So… i think that for us to survive… one of us will have to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the others…” He held out his hand towards his friends, a look of sadness across his face.
“NO! It wouldn’t feel right! We don’t want to lose you!” One of them said.
“WAIT, WHAT!? WHO SAID IT WAS ME! I WAS SUGGESTING ONE OF YOU GUYS!” Totoro exclaimed. “Geez, as if i would suggest myself!”